ED to promote ex-cadre section officers shortly
By Sajid Gondal
Thursday, 23 Jul, 2009 | 07:52 AM PST
ISLAMABAD, July 22: Promotion Board of the Establishment Division (ED) will meet within few days to approve the promotion of a batch of 50 ex-cadre section officers to deputy secretaries.
Another batch of the Central Superior Services (CSS) qualified regular officers of the Office Management Group (OMG) has raised its protest against the proposed promotion, terming it violation of seniority rules.
According to sources, a tug of war in going on between the regular CSS qualified and ex-cadre officers for registering their name in the proposed list of officers who will be approved by the board.
Sources in the ED told Dawn that the ex-cadre officers, including a good number of non-regular officers who have been inducted from other departments, are junior to regular CSS qualified officers but the division has brought them to the agenda of the board on priority bases.
According to the office promotion rules, seniority of the civil servants will be maintained by the date of entry in the cadre or group. In this case, the section officers were inducted in the OMG on May 28, 2000, whereas the direct officers joined the service after qualifying CSS examination on February 18, 2000.
The sources said the situation arose when ED created confusion regarding the seniority procedure and combined the seniority list of the regular, inductees and ex-cadre officers and crafted a single file.
According to the Civil Service Rules 1990, officers selected through CSS examination in the OMG are to be treated as members of Occupational Group and their seniority is to be maintained separately as in the case of other 12 occupational groups selected through the competitive examination.
In this case, seniority of the regular, ex-cadre and inductee officers has been placed in a unified list that is in violation of the rules. From the same list specified quota for promotion has been reserved for ex-cadre and inductee officers.
According to the rules, 67 per cent quota has been reserved for CSS qualified officers for promotion to higher cadres. It is for first time that the ED board has taken on board the promotion of 100 per cent ex-cadre officers.
According to the sources, a group of regular officers met with the secretary Establishment on Tuesday to register its protest against the violation of rules of seniority.
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http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/...rs-shortly-379
PS: ex-cadre vs. css here as well. :P